Recently I have seen many accounts dedicating their steem power on curation. Some people using curation bots and some are doing it manually. Curation is basically the reward for finding undervalued posts and promoting those by upvoting.
Self voting on the other hand is quite self explanatory. I see many people don’t like self voters for obvious reasons. There are ongoing debates whether to self vote or curate and which one is more profitable.
In this post I am trying to find out the financial benefit of curation vs self voting by following some curators. I have listed few curators with high steem power, some of them are even curation bots. I have used steemnow.com to find out how much their vote worth with 100% voting power. We know that after HF19 we can cast 10 upvotes with 100% power each day. For example, if someone’s vote is worth $1, he/she can earn $10 daily just by selfvoting their own post.
Examples 1
Let's move into the examples I was talking earlier. I am showing 2 curators below who might be making lot more by selfvoting other than curation. The list can go on and on.
Above picture we can see the user's single vote worth approximately $98. So 10 self votes per day will make him $980 daily. Yet, the account is making 70-80 steem power daily which is equivalent to around $120 at today's price.
Examples 2
Here is the 2nd example of another user who's single vote worth $21 and daily potential earnings could me $210 using self vote. But this account is also earning 70-80 steem power daily which is equivalent to around $120 at today's price.
